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Chicago examiner | vol vii no 285 a m thursday november 18 1909 18 pages prirp onf cfnt delivered tiy carrier merriam in a rage calls for police to eject m'govern firm's lamer attorney t j fell subsides only when bluecoat appears at shale inquiry bonnell grows defiant assistant city engineer flatly refuses to answer ques tions is suspended seusatiou that followed sensation n such rapid sequence as to keep inquisitors and audience continually gasping with amazement culminated yesterday in a caii lor police to the rooms where the mer riam commission sat in one of the most dramatic sessions since the investigation into city graft opened ralph a bonnell assistant city engineer and central figure in the inquiry into the details of the payment of 45,000 to the m h mcgovern company in extras on the lawrence avenue sewer openly defied the commission when he was asked to an swer certain questions his defiance came after a recital of political intrigue and conspiracy by city engineer ericson in which the names of former mayor dunne and joseph medill patterson figured while eonnell was daring the commis sion to force him to answer its questions an exciting clash occurred between tim othy j fell the attorney for the m h mcgovern company and alderman charles e merriam chairman of the investigating committee welton calls for police it was while the bitter exchange of words between these two was diverting attention from bonnell's mutiny that ben iÂ»jnia f welton the new york graft hunter called for the police and in an swer to his call both alderman merriam and walter l fisher ordered commission er of public works hanberg to summon a hlmi ml 5rne ostensible purpose of calling for the policeman was to eject fell from the room but in the interim between the clash and the arrival of a giant young polfceman fisher merriam alderman snow and other members of the commission were ad vised by assistant corporation counsel robert x holt not to make the attempt oh policeman was ordered to stand guard at the door and preserve order until the ' commission had concluded its exciting ses sion bonnell's refusal to answer questions re sulted in his instant suspension by orders or commissioner of public works hanberg who himself under advice of aldermen snow and merriam several days ago had held np a suspension order so that they could have jurisdiction over the obstreper ous employe bonnell accepted his suspen sion with another defiant statement and the commission lapsed into calm merriam white with rage the picture of merriam slim usually mild spoken and apologetic in demeanor standing white with rage and directing commissioner hanberg to call in the police after his clash with attorney fell wel ton foe of graft and tamer of tammany boodlers in new york urging drastic action against the lawyer walter l fisher up lifter and chief inquisitor for the graft hunters threatening the obstinate bon nell with the wrath of the city council hanberg cabinet officer and chief adviser of mayor busse issuing orders to bring the police double quick and ericson the ; man who issued the famous shale rock : voucher scurrying forth to carry out han ' berg's orders was one of dramatic tense ' ness ' merriam changed from the smiling ur bane professor who never speaks above a conversational tone into an indignant chal lenging official who shut the protesting lips of the mcgovern lawyer with a stern order to maintain silence and indipated to < all that he was going to maintain order even if arrests had to be made ! fell had arisen to protest against the use of his name ln the proceedings , if the commission please he began the commission doesn't please and you will please keep still 6aid merriam a ] little louder than is his usual wont but i protest again began fell you are not wanted 1 you will have done protesting lou are j not wanted in this discussion and you will maintain order fairly shouted merriam trembling with anger and rising this commission has no right to use my name in this way persisted fell as he ' too arose ... his seat it is not fair ' this commission will use your name or ' any other name as it arises and if you > don't like it you can you should not have i â€¢ ome here if you object you were not < invited roared merriam ( at this juncture the police were called 1 at welton's suggestion and then assist t ant corporation counsel holt intervened ] with his advice against ousting fell i * the climax to the day's sensation came \ about when attorney walter fisher questioning ralph a bonnell the assist ant engineer on whose estimates the mc govern extras were paid asked him a ? question which he refused point blank to answer the question was as to whether he had asked a a babcock who was his superior on the sewer work to make i leadings of headings meaning certain g work in the construction of the sewer i refer you to my former flat statement a a to that said bonnell a do you mean that yoh refuse to an p senator borah sounds the keynote of land congress purpose i t | ji/e can win the gratitude of posterity in no better way than by laying strong and | i firm and broad the system upon which we are to develop and make perma 1 i nently prosperous the goodly land which the lord our god hath given us â€” wil Â§ | liam e bor.ah united states senator from idaho | senator borah of idaho addressing west i the man of the hour aeroplanes safer than football says student university of pennsylvania man prom ises flight qver gridiron thanksgiving new york nov 17 1t is safer than football said carl h carson president of tile newly formed aero club of the t'nl versity of pennsylvania when asked to day about the plaus of several of the larger colleges to devote considerable time to aeronautics we plan to have our initial trial ou franklin field thanksgiving day and im mediately before the football game he continued it will be the ascension of a balloon manned by undergraduates of the niverslty and since every student is deeply interested in the sport there will be as much keenness about the balloon as about the game we intend to perfect ourselves during the coming winter first by modeling aero planes and airships and then possibly by purchasing one of either wright broth ers or the curtiss type other colleges may be challenged for a spring meet at which contests will be held already the aviation section of the massachusetts institute of technology and those students at harvard who are follow ing the sport are planning to hold a meet we will challenge both mr carson is a member of the senior class of the university and is devoted to this new form of sport charles m schwab it is said will finance the pur chase of the aeroplanes and balloons broken axle ties up l rush trains northwestern and oak park traffic blocked thou â– sands delayed ' excitement prevailed among passengers on a northbound three-ear express train of the northwestern elevated at 6:15 o'clock last evening when the front axle of the rear trucks of the motor car broke just after the tram had left the quincy street station by the accideut traffic on both the north western and Chicago & oak park elevated trains was tied up until 7:30 o'clock when shuttle trains were put in operation thousands of persons on their way to their homes were delayed for almost an hour trains behind the wrecked train were backed around the loop to lake street and fifth avenue from this point the ciiicago & oak park trains went west in lake street while the northwestern trains continued north in fifth avenue from tue new terminal of the northwest ern road in north water street regular service was started about half an hour after the accident two shuttle trains from eaeh of the ele vatei lines affected carried passengers from the loop stations after 7:30 o'clock the motor car of the wrecked train was used as a smoker and was crowded with men when the axle broke many pas sengers were thrown from their seats and as oue of the wheels of the motor car ran along the outside guard rail for sev eral feet before the train was stopped the excitement wus intense knlf an hour after the accident trains delayed signs were put up at all stations of the lo#p passengers who were on sta tion platforms boarded the trains that were backed around the loop while passengers on the disabled train walked through to the rear car which had not left the quincy street platform the switching of the trains of the chi cago & oak park hd northwestern caused only a slight delay to the trains of the metropolitan and south side lines the regular service on the other roads was not restored until after 10 o'clock five ships sink in storm sr.'m.u.id property loss canwil by gale on i.:ilÂ«*n detroit mich nov 17.-five ships have been sunk two have been badly dam aged and financial loss of nearly 300,000 has been incurred in the last three days as a result of the storm that sias been raging in the upper lakes with all the enormous loss only one man has been drowned he was stephen deuzer who lashed himself to a spar refusiing to take to the small boats when the steamer touis pahlow broke up the steamers lost are the ottawa 130,000 pahlow 15.0uo barge ilinton 15,000 barge commerce j,000 james h hoyt 2.'50,000 wants 2 dreadnauqhts meyer will also ask congress for submarines and destroyers washington nov 17 secretary meyer will ask congress for two battle ships of 26,000 tons each to form a division of four with the two vessels of that class authorized at the last session he will ask also for a oew type of scout cruisers and for a number of submarines and tor pedo boat destroyers the secretary has in mind also a line repair ship but if he iinnot got it will ask for an additional number of torpedo boat destroyers mrs stetson fulls in faint at trial hearing ends with charge of practicing hypnotism said to be proved boston mass not 17 the trial of mrs augusta stetson although the direc tors of the chrlÃŸtian science mother church declare it is not a trial ended i this evening at the close of the third day's grilling a grilling so severe that for fifteen 1 minutes this afternoon the new york woman virtually collapsed a window was opened and mrs stetson was assisted to seat herself beside it at torney davis himself a christian scien tist â€” seated himself before mrs stetson as though perhaps treating her accord ing to the system of the church while mrs dunn and the other women fanned her vigorously mrs stetson sat with closed eyes at no moment since the opening of the trial has she so nearly shown her sixty-nine years secretary dittemore is authority for the statement that there has been no trial when he left the church for lunch this afternoon he stated that the directors have not been conducting a trial an ex amination nor an inquisition on mrs stet son mr dittemore referred to the pro ceedings as a conference an evening paper prinis what purports to be the substance of the charges agaiust mrs stetson furnished it says by one of the most prominent christian scientists in the country who enjoys close personal and official relations with mrs mary ba ker g eddy the head of the church in brief these charges allege that mrs stetson has been practicing hypnotism and | in her practice has degenerated into the | purely physical the article concludes i as follows the facts against mrs stetson have been proved the evidence that she has been practicing hypnotism is overwhelm ing new york nov 17.-^the complete downfall of mrs stetson was apparent at the midweek meeting of the first cnureti of christ scientist to-night every one of her stanchest followers stood up and voted for a resolution indorsing the action of the boston board of directors in a congregation of 1,800 there was not a single dissenting vote college bars football kame two dangerous as oÂ«r playeij says georgetown faculty washington d c nÂ«v 17 the fac ulty of georgetown university decided to day to abolish football as it is now played the order is that the game of football shall be dis continued by the athletic association until such a time when the rules can be so framed as to exclude all possibility of dan ger to life and limb this action was prompted by the death last saturday of archie christian left half back of the university of virginia in the game on the georgetown field f l goss comi duck with a bride vice president of printing press company marries miss foster in europe frederick l goss is coming uoun to Chicago from europe with a bride Â« uose maiden name was miss jessie foster mi gobs wote home about hiie good time he was having but he neglected to take his sons daughters and brothers into his con fidence the officers of the company were also in the dark as to the identity of the new mrs goss mr goss is sixty years old and is a native of newport wales he was mar ried first in milwaukee thirty-six years ago and became the father of live children the first mrs goss died some years ago in london ah tllat is known here of the bride is that she is an english woman mr goss has been living with some of his children at 3512 west monroe street new york nov it when frederick l goss vice president of the goss print ing press company of Chicago arrived here to-day on the oceanic of the white star line it became known that he was quietly married two months ago in london apparently mr goss wanted to take his secret all the way to Chicago with him t and he was rather reticent about telling of the marriage he would not tell the exact date of the wedding nor would he tell who his bride was he declined to allow her to be introduced xo he said i don't want to say at this time who my wife was i will keep that as another surprise for my friends so far as i am aware nothing has been printed about the inarriaje and some of them will be startled to know about it * left here six months ago for a trip to england i wanted a vacation and i also had some business to attend to but had no idea i would get married before i returned but i did and i'm glad of it mr goss said he would remain in new york for three or four days before going to Chicago to present his bride to his family and friends there'll be some fun when my friendi learn i'm married and i can imagine the expressions on their fares when rhpy find eut who my bride is rivalry fob settlers at land show grows keener as every state joins rage by roswell field increasing crowds at convention hear or ators from south and west vie with leaders north and east in setting forth advantages of their farming districts make congress annual affair permanent national association is planned senator borah of idaho and governor vessey of south dakota among the day's speakers lively contest is on for next year's meeting y f the sessions of the national farm land congress tues day justified the characterization of a brilliant opening *â– the meetings yesterday far exceeded even what might have been expected from so favorable a beginning on all sides were heard expressions of astonishment from the dele gates that their own large expectations had been so inade quate and that the congress had developed into so important and potential an affair the ballroom at the hotel la salle is a spacious auditori um yet at both sessions of the conrress yesterday morning and afternoon it was packed to its utmost capacity and all through the principal addresses hundreds of interested vis itors lined the walls crowded the doorway and overflowed into the corridor it was evident that the promoters of the congress modestly underestimated the popular interest in the * movement and did not foresee what charm of magnetism lay in the names of the leading orators and expositors of the dutv of the hour toward the oncoming settlers in the great unde veloped country congressman calls missouri the hub yesterday was what might be called northwestern day as tuesday was northeastern and eastern day and the speakers were selected in the main from the great range of states lying between washington oregon and the missis sippi river but there were occasional diversions as notably in the case of congressman lloyd of missouri who spoke eloquent ly for his state because as he maintained it is the hub of the wheel and because he acknowledged that he was born in missouri has always lived there and has always regarded it the best of all possible states these missourians are an energetic lot of visitors and when they fail to get the floor in the congress they organize little side congresses and speak to admiring audiences they have brought with them a little medal struck off by their state board of agriculture with the symbolic mule on one side and an invitation to write to missouri for points about cheap and desirable homes on the other these medals were freely peddled out to the delegates with appropriate remarks abou t the importance of seeing missouri before making too many claims for other sections your missourian has lost something of that backwardness and accumulation of moss with which he was for so many years â€” unjustly no doubt â€” associated 4 state pride brings lively competition the congress has not yet acquired the art of beginning its sessions promptly on time and of carrying out its programme according to schedule but the fact is that there is so much state pride and everybody is so fearful that his locality will not receive its just amount of recognition in the field of ex planatory oratory that it is aim ost impossible to maintain any regularity or recognition however it was not very long after the appointed hour yesterday morning when the conven tion gradually came to a condition resembling order and was turned over to chairman john r . mann who is also chairman of the ways and mans committee of the Chicago associa tion of comerce and s well a speaker and presiding officer of unusual tact and grace the special orator of the morning session was governor r s vessey of south dakota who had taken for his subject the call of the farm the governor raised a laugh when he said that it was his one desire to get back to the farm and added that perhaps li.s wish would be realized after the next election then striking a more serious note he showed the improved condition of the american farms detailed the great advances that have been made in scientific agriculture and how the farming of to-day is a luxury as compared with the conditions prevailing a few years ago would make country life more enjoyable he declared that the whole republic of the united state is built on the basis of the farm and he deplored the changt in public sentiment that of late years has taken away so many boys from the agricultural life he argued that to offset this country life must be made more fascinat ing to young pe6ple to be a farmer boy or girl mult not be synonymous with a d radge the farmer must t abreast of the times striving for all those conven iences and luxuries which an dvancing civilization lwa continued on 6th page 2d column m weather forecast il iyzi Chicago and vicinity fair a o thursday and friday rising tern lj \"\ perature friday light variable kjf m winds i2k m if yov can't ll jfiffi afford that bt t ' f new overcoat or whatever it may he 5 \ <* exchange yonr old one or anything yoa *_ m y \ don't need to help pay for your intended 1 m u read the barter and exchange iff -_\

Chicago examiner | vol vii no 285 a m thursday november 18 1909 18 pages prirp onf cfnt delivered tiy carrier merriam in a rage calls for police to eject m'govern firm's lamer attorney t j fell subsides only when bluecoat appears at shale inquiry bonnell grows defiant assistant city engineer flatly refuses to answer ques tions is suspended seusatiou that followed sensation n such rapid sequence as to keep inquisitors and audience continually gasping with amazement culminated yesterday in a caii lor police to the rooms where the mer riam commission sat in one of the most dramatic sessions since the investigation into city graft opened ralph a bonnell assistant city engineer and central figure in the inquiry into the details of the payment of 45,000 to the m h mcgovern company in extras on the lawrence avenue sewer openly defied the commission when he was asked to an swer certain questions his defiance came after a recital of political intrigue and conspiracy by city engineer ericson in which the names of former mayor dunne and joseph medill patterson figured while eonnell was daring the commis sion to force him to answer its questions an exciting clash occurred between tim othy j fell the attorney for the m h mcgovern company and alderman charles e merriam chairman of the investigating committee welton calls for police it was while the bitter exchange of words between these two was diverting attention from bonnell's mutiny that ben iÂ»jnia f welton the new york graft hunter called for the police and in an swer to his call both alderman merriam and walter l fisher ordered commission er of public works hanberg to summon a hlmi ml 5rne ostensible purpose of calling for the policeman was to eject fell from the room but in the interim between the clash and the arrival of a giant young polfceman fisher merriam alderman snow and other members of the commission were ad vised by assistant corporation counsel robert x holt not to make the attempt oh policeman was ordered to stand guard at the door and preserve order until the ' commission had concluded its exciting ses sion bonnell's refusal to answer questions re sulted in his instant suspension by orders or commissioner of public works hanberg who himself under advice of aldermen snow and merriam several days ago had held np a suspension order so that they could have jurisdiction over the obstreper ous employe bonnell accepted his suspen sion with another defiant statement and the commission lapsed into calm merriam white with rage the picture of merriam slim usually mild spoken and apologetic in demeanor standing white with rage and directing commissioner hanberg to call in the police after his clash with attorney fell wel ton foe of graft and tamer of tammany boodlers in new york urging drastic action against the lawyer walter l fisher up lifter and chief inquisitor for the graft hunters threatening the obstinate bon nell with the wrath of the city council hanberg cabinet officer and chief adviser of mayor busse issuing orders to bring the police double quick and ericson the ; man who issued the famous shale rock : voucher scurrying forth to carry out han ' berg's orders was one of dramatic tense ' ness ' merriam changed from the smiling ur bane professor who never speaks above a conversational tone into an indignant chal lenging official who shut the protesting lips of the mcgovern lawyer with a stern order to maintain silence and indipated to < all that he was going to maintain order even if arrests had to be made ! fell had arisen to protest against the use of his name ln the proceedings , if the commission please he began the commission doesn't please and you will please keep still 6aid merriam a ] little louder than is his usual wont but i protest again began fell you are not wanted 1 you will have done protesting lou are j not wanted in this discussion and you will maintain order fairly shouted merriam trembling with anger and rising this commission has no right to use my name in this way persisted fell as he ' too arose ... his seat it is not fair ' this commission will use your name or ' any other name as it arises and if you > don't like it you can you should not have i â€¢ ome here if you object you were not < invited roared merriam ( at this juncture the police were called 1 at welton's suggestion and then assist t ant corporation counsel holt intervened ] with his advice against ousting fell i * the climax to the day's sensation came \ about when attorney walter fisher questioning ralph a bonnell the assist ant engineer on whose estimates the mc govern extras were paid asked him a ? question which he refused point blank to answer the question was as to whether he had asked a a babcock who was his superior on the sewer work to make i leadings of headings meaning certain g work in the construction of the sewer i refer you to my former flat statement a a to that said bonnell a do you mean that yoh refuse to an p senator borah sounds the keynote of land congress purpose i t | ji/e can win the gratitude of posterity in no better way than by laying strong and | i firm and broad the system upon which we are to develop and make perma 1 i nently prosperous the goodly land which the lord our god hath given us â€” wil Â§ | liam e bor.ah united states senator from idaho | senator borah of idaho addressing west i the man of the hour aeroplanes safer than football says student university of pennsylvania man prom ises flight qver gridiron thanksgiving new york nov 17 1t is safer than football said carl h carson president of tile newly formed aero club of the t'nl versity of pennsylvania when asked to day about the plaus of several of the larger colleges to devote considerable time to aeronautics we plan to have our initial trial ou franklin field thanksgiving day and im mediately before the football game he continued it will be the ascension of a balloon manned by undergraduates of the niverslty and since every student is deeply interested in the sport there will be as much keenness about the balloon as about the game we intend to perfect ourselves during the coming winter first by modeling aero planes and airships and then possibly by purchasing one of either wright broth ers or the curtiss type other colleges may be challenged for a spring meet at which contests will be held already the aviation section of the massachusetts institute of technology and those students at harvard who are follow ing the sport are planning to hold a meet we will challenge both mr carson is a member of the senior class of the university and is devoted to this new form of sport charles m schwab it is said will finance the pur chase of the aeroplanes and balloons broken axle ties up l rush trains northwestern and oak park traffic blocked thou â– sands delayed ' excitement prevailed among passengers on a northbound three-ear express train of the northwestern elevated at 6:15 o'clock last evening when the front axle of the rear trucks of the motor car broke just after the tram had left the quincy street station by the accideut traffic on both the north western and Chicago & oak park elevated trains was tied up until 7:30 o'clock when shuttle trains were put in operation thousands of persons on their way to their homes were delayed for almost an hour trains behind the wrecked train were backed around the loop to lake street and fifth avenue from this point the ciiicago & oak park trains went west in lake street while the northwestern trains continued north in fifth avenue from tue new terminal of the northwest ern road in north water street regular service was started about half an hour after the accident two shuttle trains from eaeh of the ele vatei lines affected carried passengers from the loop stations after 7:30 o'clock the motor car of the wrecked train was used as a smoker and was crowded with men when the axle broke many pas sengers were thrown from their seats and as oue of the wheels of the motor car ran along the outside guard rail for sev eral feet before the train was stopped the excitement wus intense knlf an hour after the accident trains delayed signs were put up at all stations of the lo#p passengers who were on sta tion platforms boarded the trains that were backed around the loop while passengers on the disabled train walked through to the rear car which had not left the quincy street platform the switching of the trains of the chi cago & oak park hd northwestern caused only a slight delay to the trains of the metropolitan and south side lines the regular service on the other roads was not restored until after 10 o'clock five ships sink in storm sr.'m.u.id property loss canwil by gale on i.:ilÂ«*n detroit mich nov 17.-five ships have been sunk two have been badly dam aged and financial loss of nearly 300,000 has been incurred in the last three days as a result of the storm that sias been raging in the upper lakes with all the enormous loss only one man has been drowned he was stephen deuzer who lashed himself to a spar refusiing to take to the small boats when the steamer touis pahlow broke up the steamers lost are the ottawa 130,000 pahlow 15.0uo barge ilinton 15,000 barge commerce j,000 james h hoyt 2.'50,000 wants 2 dreadnauqhts meyer will also ask congress for submarines and destroyers washington nov 17 secretary meyer will ask congress for two battle ships of 26,000 tons each to form a division of four with the two vessels of that class authorized at the last session he will ask also for a oew type of scout cruisers and for a number of submarines and tor pedo boat destroyers the secretary has in mind also a line repair ship but if he iinnot got it will ask for an additional number of torpedo boat destroyers mrs stetson fulls in faint at trial hearing ends with charge of practicing hypnotism said to be proved boston mass not 17 the trial of mrs augusta stetson although the direc tors of the chrlÃŸtian science mother church declare it is not a trial ended i this evening at the close of the third day's grilling a grilling so severe that for fifteen 1 minutes this afternoon the new york woman virtually collapsed a window was opened and mrs stetson was assisted to seat herself beside it at torney davis himself a christian scien tist â€” seated himself before mrs stetson as though perhaps treating her accord ing to the system of the church while mrs dunn and the other women fanned her vigorously mrs stetson sat with closed eyes at no moment since the opening of the trial has she so nearly shown her sixty-nine years secretary dittemore is authority for the statement that there has been no trial when he left the church for lunch this afternoon he stated that the directors have not been conducting a trial an ex amination nor an inquisition on mrs stet son mr dittemore referred to the pro ceedings as a conference an evening paper prinis what purports to be the substance of the charges agaiust mrs stetson furnished it says by one of the most prominent christian scientists in the country who enjoys close personal and official relations with mrs mary ba ker g eddy the head of the church in brief these charges allege that mrs stetson has been practicing hypnotism and | in her practice has degenerated into the | purely physical the article concludes i as follows the facts against mrs stetson have been proved the evidence that she has been practicing hypnotism is overwhelm ing new york nov 17.-^the complete downfall of mrs stetson was apparent at the midweek meeting of the first cnureti of christ scientist to-night every one of her stanchest followers stood up and voted for a resolution indorsing the action of the boston board of directors in a congregation of 1,800 there was not a single dissenting vote college bars football kame two dangerous as oÂ«r playeij says georgetown faculty washington d c nÂ«v 17 the fac ulty of georgetown university decided to day to abolish football as it is now played the order is that the game of football shall be dis continued by the athletic association until such a time when the rules can be so framed as to exclude all possibility of dan ger to life and limb this action was prompted by the death last saturday of archie christian left half back of the university of virginia in the game on the georgetown field f l goss comi duck with a bride vice president of printing press company marries miss foster in europe frederick l goss is coming uoun to Chicago from europe with a bride Â« uose maiden name was miss jessie foster mi gobs wote home about hiie good time he was having but he neglected to take his sons daughters and brothers into his con fidence the officers of the company were also in the dark as to the identity of the new mrs goss mr goss is sixty years old and is a native of newport wales he was mar ried first in milwaukee thirty-six years ago and became the father of live children the first mrs goss died some years ago in london ah tllat is known here of the bride is that she is an english woman mr goss has been living with some of his children at 3512 west monroe street new york nov it when frederick l goss vice president of the goss print ing press company of Chicago arrived here to-day on the oceanic of the white star line it became known that he was quietly married two months ago in london apparently mr goss wanted to take his secret all the way to Chicago with him t and he was rather reticent about telling of the marriage he would not tell the exact date of the wedding nor would he tell who his bride was he declined to allow her to be introduced xo he said i don't want to say at this time who my wife was i will keep that as another surprise for my friends so far as i am aware nothing has been printed about the inarriaje and some of them will be startled to know about it * left here six months ago for a trip to england i wanted a vacation and i also had some business to attend to but had no idea i would get married before i returned but i did and i'm glad of it mr goss said he would remain in new york for three or four days before going to Chicago to present his bride to his family and friends there'll be some fun when my friendi learn i'm married and i can imagine the expressions on their fares when rhpy find eut who my bride is rivalry fob settlers at land show grows keener as every state joins rage by roswell field increasing crowds at convention hear or ators from south and west vie with leaders north and east in setting forth advantages of their farming districts make congress annual affair permanent national association is planned senator borah of idaho and governor vessey of south dakota among the day's speakers lively contest is on for next year's meeting y f the sessions of the national farm land congress tues day justified the characterization of a brilliant opening *â– the meetings yesterday far exceeded even what might have been expected from so favorable a beginning on all sides were heard expressions of astonishment from the dele gates that their own large expectations had been so inade quate and that the congress had developed into so important and potential an affair the ballroom at the hotel la salle is a spacious auditori um yet at both sessions of the conrress yesterday morning and afternoon it was packed to its utmost capacity and all through the principal addresses hundreds of interested vis itors lined the walls crowded the doorway and overflowed into the corridor it was evident that the promoters of the congress modestly underestimated the popular interest in the * movement and did not foresee what charm of magnetism lay in the names of the leading orators and expositors of the dutv of the hour toward the oncoming settlers in the great unde veloped country congressman calls missouri the hub yesterday was what might be called northwestern day as tuesday was northeastern and eastern day and the speakers were selected in the main from the great range of states lying between washington oregon and the missis sippi river but there were occasional diversions as notably in the case of congressman lloyd of missouri who spoke eloquent ly for his state because as he maintained it is the hub of the wheel and because he acknowledged that he was born in missouri has always lived there and has always regarded it the best of all possible states these missourians are an energetic lot of visitors and when they fail to get the floor in the congress they organize little side congresses and speak to admiring audiences they have brought with them a little medal struck off by their state board of agriculture with the symbolic mule on one side and an invitation to write to missouri for points about cheap and desirable homes on the other these medals were freely peddled out to the delegates with appropriate remarks abou t the importance of seeing missouri before making too many claims for other sections your missourian has lost something of that backwardness and accumulation of moss with which he was for so many years â€” unjustly no doubt â€” associated 4 state pride brings lively competition the congress has not yet acquired the art of beginning its sessions promptly on time and of carrying out its programme according to schedule but the fact is that there is so much state pride and everybody is so fearful that his locality will not receive its just amount of recognition in the field of ex planatory oratory that it is aim ost impossible to maintain any regularity or recognition however it was not very long after the appointed hour yesterday morning when the conven tion gradually came to a condition resembling order and was turned over to chairman john r . mann who is also chairman of the ways and mans committee of the Chicago associa tion of comerce and s well a speaker and presiding officer of unusual tact and grace the special orator of the morning session was governor r s vessey of south dakota who had taken for his subject the call of the farm the governor raised a laugh when he said that it was his one desire to get back to the farm and added that perhaps li.s wish would be realized after the next election then striking a more serious note he showed the improved condition of the american farms detailed the great advances that have been made in scientific agriculture and how the farming of to-day is a luxury as compared with the conditions prevailing a few years ago would make country life more enjoyable he declared that the whole republic of the united state is built on the basis of the farm and he deplored the changt in public sentiment that of late years has taken away so many boys from the agricultural life he argued that to offset this country life must be made more fascinat ing to young pe6ple to be a farmer boy or girl mult not be synonymous with a d radge the farmer must t abreast of the times striving for all those conven iences and luxuries which an dvancing civilization lwa continued on 6th page 2d column m weather forecast il iyzi Chicago 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